An Embedded POP email Client

Allegro’s RomPOP product enables your engineering team to leverage the capabilities of receiving email on your embedded device. With the addition of SMTP and POP functionality, device manufacturers are finding creative approaches to offer specific value “add-on” services, expanding the definitions for maintenance and support, developing novel methods for secure network configuration and provisioning of equipment using standards based email.

RomPOP Basic

RomPOP Basic is a Post Office Protocol version 3 (POPv3) client for embedded devices to receive text and HTML based Internet email from any Internet POP3 mail server. Messages are processed and stored in RAM.

RomPOP Standard

RomPOP Standard adds support for attachments encoded using MIME and UUENCODED formats and support for an optional file system.

RomPOP Advanced

With RomPOP Advanced an embedded device adds Delivery Status Notification and Message Delivery Notification support.

Supported RFCs

• RFC 822 – Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages
• RFC 1892 – The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages
• RFC 1939 – Post Office Protocol – Version 3
• RFC 2045 – Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
• RFC 2046 – Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types
• RFC 2047 – MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
• RFC 2048 – Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures
• RFC 2298 – An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications
• RFC 3464 – An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications

System Requirements

• Processor Architecture – Agnostic to any 16-bit, 32-bit or 64-bit processor
• Operating System(OS) – Agnostic to OS vendor and will function without an OS if needed
• TCP/IP Stack – Agnostic
• Filesystem – Agnostic to vendor implementation and will function without a filesystem if needed
• Compiler – ANSI C

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